Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - World Premiere . By Eric Benson April 22, 2009 View read count. The end of the Jazz Wars means the "J-word" has lost much of its politically divisive power ...

One of the most significant concepts spoken in the documentary ICONS AMONG US regards how a musician learning to play jazz is nothing more than that musician discovering the answer to the question who ...

Recently I spent some time watching a new documentary film series on modern jazz titled Icons Among Us: Jazz In The Present Tense. The series — which aired on The Documentary Channel and is now ma ...

Yet that broad snapshot of an entire genre, loosely anchored in its classic 1940s and ’50s period, is just part of what jazz is — or, in many ways, was. Filmmakers Michael Rivoira, Lars Larson and ...